Synonyms of the word

nag

• n. A small horse; a pony.
• n. An old useless horse.
• n. (obsolete, derogatory) A paramour.
• v. To continuously remind or complain to someone in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary…
• v. To act inappropriately in the eyes of peers, to backstab, to verbally abuse.
• v. To bother with persistent memories.
• v. Other sorts of persistent annoyance, e.g.
• n. One who nags.

complain

• v. (intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
• v. (intransitive) To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
• v. To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

hack

• v. (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
• v. (intransitive) To cough noisily.
• v. To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g.,…
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account…
• v. (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
• v. (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective,…
• v. (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something…
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To work with on an intimately technical level.
• v. (ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.
• v. (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
• v. (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
• v. (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
• v. To strike in a frantic movement.
• v. (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
• n. A tool for chopping.
• n. A hacking blow.
• n. A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
• n. A dry cough.
• n. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
• n. (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
• n. (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes…
• n. (obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
• n. (computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
• n. (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
• n. (computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
• n. (computing) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced…
• n. (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
• n. (slang, military) Time check.
• n. (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.
• n. A kick on the shins in football.
• n. (falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom…
• n. A food-rack for cattle.
• n. A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
• n. A grating in a mill race.
• v. To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
• v. (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
• n. (obsolete) An ordinary saddle horse, especially one which has been let out for hire and is old and tired.
• n. A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. (newspaper hack).
• n. (pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
• n. (slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
• n. A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney…
• n. (pejorative) An untalented writer.
• n. (pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to…
• n. (pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
• n. (politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory).
• n. (obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
• n. (obsolete) A procuress.
• v. (dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
• v. To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
• v. (obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
• v. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
• v. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
• n. A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for…
• v. To play hackeysack.

horse

• n. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
• n. Equipment with legs.
• n. (nautical) Type of equipment.
• n. (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course…
• n. (slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
• n. (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss…
• n. (dated, slang, among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
• n. (dated, slang, among students) horseplay; tomfoolery.
• v. (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".).
• v. (transitive) To provide with a horse.
• v. (obsolete) To get on horseback.
• v. To sit astride of; to bestride.
• v. (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
• v. To take or carry on the back.
• v. To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such…
• n. (uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin (drug).

jade

• n. (uncountable) A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often…
• n. A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
• adj. Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
• n. A horse too old to be put to work.
• n. (especially pejorative) A woman.
• v. To tire, weary or fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
• v. (obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.

kick

• v. (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
• v. (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
• v. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
• v. (Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
• v. (slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
• v. To move or push suddenly and violently.
• v. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
• v. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
• v. (cycling, intransitive) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from…
• n. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
• n. The action of swinging a foot or leg.
• n. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
• n. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it…
• n. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
• n. (uncountable and countable) piquancy.
• n. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
• n. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
• n. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
• n. a recoil of a gun.
• n. (informal) pocket.
• n. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
• v. To die.

kvetch

• v. To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.
• n. Person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything.
• n. An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine.

nagger

• n. One who nags.

peck

• v. To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.
• v. (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
• v. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick…
• v. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
• v. To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
• v. To type by searching for each key individually.
• v. (rare) To type in general.
• v. To kiss briefly.
• n. An act of pecking.
• n. A small kiss.
• n. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
• n. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
• v. (regional) To throw.
• v. To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of…
• n. Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
• n. Misspelling of pec.

plain

• adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
• adj. Simple.
• adj. Obvious.
• adj. Open.
• adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
• adv. (colloquial) Simply.
• n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
• n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
• n. A battlefield.
• n. (obsolete) A plane.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

plug

• n. (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.
• n. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
• n. (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
• n. (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
• n. (US, slang) A worthless horse.
• n. (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
• n. A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features…
• n. (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
• n. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
• n. (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually…
• n. A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the…
• v. (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
• v. (transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
• v. (transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
• v. (slang, transitive) to have sex with, penetrate sexually.

quetch

• v. Alternative form of quitch.

remind

• v. To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration…

scold

• n. A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.
• v. To rebuke.

scolder

• n. One who scolds.
• n. The oystercatcher, so called from its shrill cries.
• n. (US, dialect) The oldsquaw.

vex

• v. (transitive, now rare) To trouble aggressively, to harass.
• v. (transitive) To annoy, irritate.
• v. (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
• v. (transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
• v. (transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

worry

• v. (intransitive) To be troubled, to give way to mental anxiety.
• v. (transitive) Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.
• v. (transitive) To harass; to irritate or distress.
• v. (transitive) To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
• v. (transitive) To touch repeatedly, to fiddle with.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To strangle.
• n. A strong feeling of anxiety.
• n. An instance or cause of such a feeling.